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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 218, 12 September 1916, Page 1

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' - Eligible men enrol! . ■ In~ the National Reserve. Before September Iβ. German casualty lists show a total of 3,376,134. The Norwegian steamer Linborg has been torpedoed. Varna, a Bulgarian port on the Black Sea, is being evacuated by ' the Bui--garians. . . . • Sydney wool sales opened yesterday, and prices were on a par with the August values. A'Russian princess is eaid to have been found serving in the trenches on the south-west front. • The arrangement to have'a parade in Auckland of portion of the Seventeenth Reinforcements has been cancelled. . The Panama Canal is open' again, and the new channel is said to be capable of taking chips drawing up to 30ft. . The Bulgarians in their communiques maintain that- they are "still advancing in the Dobrudja district of Rumania. A Presbyterian missionary who has been in Northern Arabia gives an awful account of the sufferings of. Armenians. Earthquake .tremors were felt at Whakatane , on Sunday and Monday, coming apparently from the direction of White Island. Several fierce counter-attacks have been- delivered by the Germans on the Anglo-French front, but all have been, repulsed. During the past two months the teachers and scholars of the New Lynn school have raised- £68 for. patriotic purposes. ■ ■ Buenos Aires was the scene of demonstrations against the British "black list" of .' German firms in neutral countries. . ...... "V .'" Hindenburg is said to have premised ; a striking victory on the eastern, front before .the Reichstag reassembles o», September. 28;. : : :'. ....,/ , . ... Some. .fresV.-easeavof cerebro-spinal meningitis are reported at Featherston camp, and stringent medical precautions are being taken. t Gordon. Fisher, aged 15. years,, was drowned by ■ being pinned VV&* a 1 cart which-capsized "on the bank' of the Ngapu'na- River, "Otago. I .'A youth named Roiy Hootpn bad one of his legs broken as a result' of his being run over by a'Cambridge roller on a.farntvat Albany yesterday. ■' ■ : The Council of .Education recommends _■ the/esiablishment of- Kitchener memorial ' : to enable the- sons of-fallen/ soldiers to qualify for the. Navy. ' . - Two '-doctors of chiropractic," ■ with. : American diplomas, were 'fined £5 each at Duniedin for-practisingjinedicine. without having, been registered in New Zealand.» ' Russians forces; hovr'lprm: a half circle. .is-one rof-the. pivot* on which" the defence of- Lfemberg. depends); and' the bombardment of/ the town continues. ■.- - ■ Charles Buborrqwr-ptrtfi"tip-> "s-_ world's; record, by swaiiHningr:oiiv ; 'the-r ; Delaware . River thirty-six:and a-haU'-milee in.tb.ir- ; teen and-, a-lialf hours. He swam, all through the night. . .... .- _. T/lje. way the .Irish troops swejit. j j through^^, Guillemont, • ■ was won. - j hands of the Germane, was one ' j-j of ifie most astonishing feats of tlie war, - r|write3 Mr' Philip Gibb's. ~. ; v. An organised plotiDraiseiivs .in "Syd- • ney.is : •suspected :by' the pqitee. In.-foiir ,- instane'ee they have discoveied prbljf'df ' the "use of cotton eoake<3 '.witn'chenJrcala that caused mes. sporitauiEiously.' Great secrecy is. beii^Tmaintained hy. the Kussians concerning the Balkan campaign,- and the Austrian ambaesador haa . 'been' detained .at . Bucharest _fdr '■'. fear that he should: convey infornxatioh" to ttia i .enemy. ". .'•;... v .;;"■-;-" "•■---. ■ ' "If. the" Government .allow-Hindoos to come.into" New,Zeiland, 1 it duty L of "labour, unions .to /educate these 'men, I as "unionists; as to their' economic posi- , tion,'V stated Mr. R. Semple at Wel- : ..;.--..' ; lington. : .". -..-•'.■' . "The marooned men on Elephaiit Island took-turas'at. rea:dihg'"th'e'■Bible, the ; "Ericydopaedia Britannica'/and the works of : leading. iiu!thors. -They, kept tlmraselyes fit by exercising- oh v. stretch of ground 100 yds long. ;-' . V ■ Seventy per cent of the -half million men promised by the Premier of Canada . "has • been -enlisted. r AlbertaT , and- British Columbia have supplied their full quotas, but Quebec-province has only supplied a quarter of its required,-number.~. The Germans-have-been dressing Russian■•.: prisoners in : German uniforms and marching them at the rear of the FrancoGerman ; front in order to deceive the French. > Several times • the ' prisoners. have drawn the fire of the French airmen, who took them -for Huns. ' A/-terrible 'accident is reported .-from Canada, where a bridge which was being erected .over the St. Lawrence River a number of men being drowned. Among the spectators were the Australian -members of Parliament who. are returning from Xiondan. The actions brought by three »wt South Wales Cabinet-Ministers against the newspaper "Mirror" :for an .alleged libel contained in an Particle headed "Does the bookmakers' money stand "between the '.people and the totalisator?" - has been settled, the defendants stating that they never intended to accuse .the Miniss tere of corruption.